Already have such a weapon. Its called a neutron bomb.

We are all slaves to the god Motorola. My wife once asked why the pager had to make such a shrill tone. Told her it was designed that way for a reason.

Yes, they do have the training to deal with it. It's called a headshot.

I'd be happy if they went back to the old pages. The new ones, with the constant feeds, absolutely sucks! I know there are ways to filter the content, but if something isn't broke why try to fix it?

Let's take the idea one step further - who says the waste heat should only be used to heat homes? You could build a closed-loop system that would allow the heat to turn turbines and generate electricity, and then return the cool water to the data center for cooling purposes.

I agree with a flat tax, but I would go with 15% across the board. Eliminate all exemptions, deductions, etc., everyone pays their 15% and you're done. This spreads the tax burden out among everyone, not just those making above a certain amount. This also helps to stimulate the economy more than anything the powers that be can come up with; if I only have to pay 15% (instead of the 28%) I'll have that much more money to go spend on a big-screen TV, or a bigger mortgage, or whatever. It is absolutely disgusting that the tax code is so long and convoluted that almost no one can understand it. Maybe our elected officials want it that way?

Perhaps you can find it on Wikipedia, but it seems to me that in a real-world situation, you don't have time to look something up on the computer - you damn well better know what you're doing and how to do it. If the injection is performed properly? Wait a minute, as long as the IV line is patent, the drugs will go into the vein. How do you check for depth of anesthesia? You have a protocol. I don't have an anesthesiologist in the back of the squad. And lately, more and more its a nurse, NOT A DOCTOR, who is doing the drug administration. And you're a biomed engineer? Good for you. Go fix the equipment and leave the medicine to those who've been trained.

Do you have any idea how the process of lethal injection works? The first drug given is a general anesthetic - sodium thiopental. Ever gone into the hospital for an operation? Its the same stuff the doctor gives you. The big difference is that the dose in the hospital is 100 - 150 milligrams given over about 15 seconds. The dose given in executions is up to 5000 milligrams. This dose, all by itself, is lethal. As far as being painless, yes, it is. You simply go to sleep. After the patient has been sedated, then a paralytic (usually either pancuronium bromide or succinylcholine chloride is given. This drug is what paralyzes the diaphragm (and everything else in your body) and leads to respiratory arrest. Oh, guess what... those drugs are also given during surgery right before you're placed on the ventilator. We also give them (along with sodium thiopental or etomidate) in the EMS setting prior to doing a procedure known as RSI (rapid sequence intubation) for combative patients before putting them into a helicopter, or for patients whose respiratory drive is failing and need us to secure an airway. The final drug given is potassium chloride, which stops the prisoner's heart. This action is caused by disrupting the heart's ability to conduct electricity, which is what causes the pumping action. How do I know this? I am a paramedic, who has used all of these drugs in the field. Not at a high enough dose to kill someone, but to save them.

It is truly amazing how often we keep coming back to the same old argument about "don't take pictures of (insert item here)". There is no expectation of privacy in a public area. When I respond to the scene of a fatal accident, it irritates me to no end when the TV news crews have to set up their cameras and take pictures of the scene, of the wrecked cars, of us doing extrication, whatever. And since they can't film us removing the bodies from the car (we put up a tarp), they take pictures of the guys holding the tarp. That being said, I would never infringe on someone's right to take a picture of a building, road, etc that is in the public view. Want to keep pictures from getting taken? Either form a homeowner's association and turn the area into private property (and don't expect the government to come plow the roads in the winter), or suck it up and ignore it. Besides, if they live in such an affluent community, I'm pretty sure the criminals already know there's some high-dollar stuff in those houses.

Did you ever consider that it could be like spam - that by clicking on the thumbs down, you've confirmed that you're actually looking at it?